Category: Tech news

TheLi.st co-founders Rachel Sklar and Glynnis MacNicol have apparently voted for themselves as #2 on Lucky Magazine’s list of “The Top 25 Most Stylish Women In Tech.”

The list, which includes Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer (twice!), is heavy on the East Coast women, which, if you believe my Secret feed, are generally more attractive and fashionable than San Francisco women. Read More

Imagine going back 25 years in a time machine to meet the you of 1989. The you that was watching the Berlin Wall fall, the you that saw Jim and Tammy Baker come back to TV, the you that was probably peripherally aware of something called the Friday The 13th Virus. Now imagine telling this past version of yourself about the World Wide Web. What could you say? That it’s pervasive, now, like… Read More

FiftyThree has thrived over the last few years, due to the massive popularity of its drawing and creativity app Paper and the release of its complementary Pencil stylus. Today it’s taking a big step to improve the creation process with an update to its Paper app, which has been updated to be faster and more responsive, and to provide even more tools for its users. Read More

Threes, the number matching game that’s part Sudoku and part Bejeweled (or Candy Crush Saga for the young folk) is now on Android. You may not think this is a big deal, if you’ve never played the game, but that’s probably because you were on Android and unable to experience how awesome it is. The 100% original, all natural, homegrown Threes! is now available on Google Play… Read More

As a watch nerd, I love to see the stuffy old watchmaking industry try new things. That’s why I was intrigued by the recent changes at Bobs Watches, a retailer turned website that buys and sells Rolex watches using a very simple exchange model. Read More

The next Angry Birds game features Rovio’s now very recognizable birds and pigs, but duking it out via different in-game combat mechanics in a turn-based RPG. Angry Birds Epic makes its debut in Australia and Canada later this week, for iOS devices, which the time-tested way to see how you product works with a small, US-like English-speaking audience ahead of a broader launch. Unlike the… Read More

Today Yahoo announced that it has partnered with Yelp to bring local data into its search experience, both mobile and desktop. The deal will see traditional Yelp information, such as ratings and user photos piped into Yahoo. Put another way, Yahoo’s search is now flavored with more third-party data that it lacks. Yahoo is no longer a company known for its search products, having long-ago… Read More

The story of advertising online in the last year has significantly also been a story about the rise of ad tech — ways of serving users more relevant ads, and ways of monitoring how users have responded to them. Unsurprisingly, this has also translated into a big rise in tracking technology: Adblock Plus, the popular German-based open source project that creates browser extensions and an Android… Read More

No, it’s not just you: Google’s search results may look different right now, thanks to a very large “bucket” test currently underway, which has dramatically changed the look-and-feel of Google’s list of blue links. Most notably, the search result links are no longer underlined, the fonts are larger, and ads don’t have the usual yellow-colored background, but are… Read More

Introducing a radical new pricing model to an existing business is not for the faint-hearted. Just ask veteran German taxi app startup, mytaxi, which last January was preparing to shift into a new gear by switching from a fixed fee to marketplace model pricing in its home market of Germany. Read More

Goldman Sachs thinks that bitcoin believers need to take a cold shower, drink some coffee, and sober up.

In the wake of Mt. Gox’s collapse, the supposed outing of Bitcoin’s creator, and some high profile arrests the financial services firm has put together an exhaustive survey of “Bitcoin” and “bitcoin” and ultimately finds the technology promising but the currency wanting. Read More

The National Security Agency reportedly has plans to control millions of computers by infecting them with malware, according to documents leaked to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. “In some cases the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server, using the social media site as a launching pad to infect a target’s computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive. In… Read More

After a few years without holding a major developer event, Facebook today opened the application process for its F8 developer conference in San Francisco on April 30th. Unlike other developer conferences, Facebook is not using a first-come, first-served system. Instead, Facebook says, the application process is “designed to ensure that we have a diverse mix of attendees at the event who… Read More

Music video streaming startup VEVO is building an updated version of its mobile apps, which are coming soon. It also took the step to making its videos available on partner applications with plans to release software development kit for third-party developers. Read More

Anonymous hackers have defaced Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles’ blog and have uploaded a data dump of customer data that, according to users with accounts on the site, is accurate. A Reddit user created an Excel spreadsheet [mirror] of anonymized user accounts with balances and many current Mt. Gox users have found their balances present. Read More